Report: Paula Broadwell’s threat to Jill Kelley

Paula Broadwell allegedly threatened to make Jill Kelley “go away,” the New York Daily News reported Tuesday, in the latest twist in a sex scandal that has ensnared top U.S. national security officials.

Broadwell, the ex-mistress of retired Gen. David Petraeus — who stepped down from his post as head of the CIA over his extramarital affair with her — allegedly sent threatening emails to Kelley, a Tampa socialite who is reportedly a friend of Petraeus’s.

“This wasn’t just a case of cyber-bullying,” the friend added later, according to the story. Kelley “was scared for her life. She had reason to be. These emails are the real thing. When she read them to me, I literally had the shivers.”

“She told me she was afraid for her life. She was scared,” the friend added, according to the Daily News.

A source close to Broadwell questioned the description of the emails.

“This is inconsistent with everything we know about Paula,” the source told POLITICO. “She was top of her class at West Point, had a 15-year military career and has been a great mentor to people, not only in the Army, but in the national security and intelligence space.”

The source called for greater scrutiny of the person making the allegations.

“I think the characterization of the emails in the Daily News story is sort of inconsistent with everything we know,” the source continued. “There’s an ongoing investigation so [Broadwell] has less latitude, but the person making the accusation didn’t have any restriction on whether they could put out the emails. It would be incumbent on the press covering this to ask a few more questions.”

The Daily News said that Broadwell cited her “‘powerful’ friends” in the threatening emails to Kelley.

Some news reports have said that Broadwell considered Kelley to pose a threat to her relationship with Petraeus.

Kelley has also come under scrutiny for allegedly exchanging thousands of pages of emails with Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, whose nomination to serve as the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe is now pending an investigation into their communications, which have been described in some reports as flirtatious.

Just me or do both these ladies look manly? I am always amazed by guys who throw it all away for sexual relationships with ladies who aren't worth looking twice at, never mind pursuing. I guess when you get older your standards fall, what sad LITTLE men.

The catfight, the affairs, the optics are irrelevant. What I want to know is how a social climber parvenue in debt up to her ears with a history of lawsuits and unpaid bills had access to a military base and high-ranking officials. The most salient security risk in this mess is clearly Jill Kelley, who would do anything for money. Is this being investigated?

So my taxpayer dollars that go to fund both the CIA and the military are being used by these two powerful men to waste an enormous amount of time that no doubt could have and should have been spent in the service of our country. All four of these people are to blame, not just the women as a lot of the comments here suggest. And, in a fair reply to those who comment on the physical attributes of the ladies in a negative way....have you seen either Petraeus or Allen? You gotta be kidding me!

So my taxpayer dollars that go to fund both the CIA and the military are being used by these two powerful men to waste an enormous amount of time that no doubt could have and should have been spent in the service of our country. All four of these people are to blame, not just the women as a lot of the comments here suggest. And, in a fair reply to those who comment on the physical attributes of the ladies in a negative way....have you seen either Petraeus or Allen? You gotta be kidding me!

It's rediculous how the Angry Old White Men are refusing to talk about the POOR JUDGEMENT and moral failings of General BeTrayUs but have focused their hate on Susan Rice who is more qualified than the cancerous John McCain. He and Miss Lindsey Graham should just go back to their BJs of each other and stay off the freaking TV, McCain and Miss Lindsey are simply media whores, and dumb hateful ones at that, POW McCain has been WRONG on every national security decision for the last 40 years.